Raised in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, high school in Southern California, bachelor’s degree in scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1974. President of l'Altelier in Vence, France. In 1984, received the "Médaille de la Ville de Nice" at the Biennale de la Mediterranée.

Worked in the theatre as a teacher, set designer and director twenty-six years, mostly in Southern France, also in San Francisco, the Mississippi Delta and Hong Kong.